Sentence examples for minor attempts from inspiring English sources

Policastro's bakery escaped significant damage though she did point out what she suspects to have been some minor attempts at looting.

Policastro's bakery escaped significant damage — though she did point out what she suspects to have been some minor attempts at looting.

"These plans for secret courts were always dangerous and unnecessary, but the failure of even minor attempts to modify the bill means that it is even worse than when it first reached the House of Commons.

The harsh reality of spiralling sovereign debts in a number of eurozone states combined with a lack of legal tools to deal with fiscal management of the euro – with minor attempts to change tracks.

Prudent investors may start by buying stakes in small local companies to test the reality of doing business before extending themselves further for example, Deutsche Bank made several minor attempts to enter Hungary before finally withdrawing.

With depressing inevitability, people enjoying the privilege of an imbalance of power felt threatened by one (minor) attempt to argue for social change.

Indeed, any minor attempt to put meat on Cameron's professed agenda is being met with projectile vomiting from the guts of the party.

It may be true that women are more likely than men to buy Wii Fit, but even if that's the case, it wouldn't hurt for marketers to make even a minor attempt at promoting fitness games to men.

For this minor attempt at comedy, which is as inconsequential as a sneeze, pretends that a beautiful trained nurse, neglected by a West Point cadet, could go on loving the indifferent rascal even though she never hears from him, even though he never sends her football tickets and even though a snappy interne is rushing her vigorously.

Westmoreland was charged Friday with enticing a minor, attempted exploitation of a minor and four counts of dealing in material harmful to a minor by an adult.

In 2013, Yamamoto pleaded no contest to oral copulation with a minor, attempted sexual intercourse with a minor and sexual penetration with a foreign object on a minor, and pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.